• Puzzle initial 'R'(esurrexi) at the beginning of the music for Easter day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

domino Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of

• Illuminated initial 'E'(ntre) at the beginning of the prologue., Anabasis

Illuminated initial 'E'(ntre) at the beginning of the prologue. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris

• Text pages with illuminated initials., Anabasis

Text pages with illuminated initials. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris of the Greek text

• Miniature of the Greek camp, with messengers reporting the death of Cyrus., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greek camp, with messengers reporting the death of Cyrus. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version

• Miniature of Greeks by the sea shore ascending a path, with Orientals looking on., Anabasis

Miniature of Greeks by the sea shore ascending a path, with Orientals looking on. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the

• Miniature of the Greeks in council on the shore, with an island castle and ship nearby, with a full foliate border with birds and grotesques., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greeks in council on the shore, with an island castle and ship nearby, with a full foliate border with birds and grotesques. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude

• Miniature of the Greeks making merry., Anabasis

Miniature of the Greeks making merry. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris of the Greek

• Detail of a miniature of the Greeks making merry., Anabasis

Detail of a miniature of the Greeks making merry. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris

• Miniature of fighting at the gates of Byzantium., Anabasis

Miniature of fighting at the gates of Byzantium. Contains the Anabasis of Xenophon in the French translation of c. 1503 by Claude de Seyssel, translated, according to his prologue (ff. 10-15), from the Latin version of John Lascaris of

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of a king kneeling before Christ., Fragment of a Psalter

the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.3 notes on f. [i]:'This fragment of an ancient Psalter was found at the back of a shelf among refuse Articles. From the handwriting of Humfrey Wanley at

• Puzzle initial on the first page of text, from the book of Job, with Arundel and Lumley ownership signatures., Bible (Job to Revelation)

in ~Tituli librorum de libraria ecclesiae Christi~ compiled under Henry of Estria (1284-1331), Cotton Galba E IV (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) no 321, p. 51); extensively corrected in the 11th-12th centuries,

• Illuminated headpiece decorated in foliate patterns on a gold ground enclosing the title, and an illuminated initial 'B'(iblos) at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew., The four Gospels, adapted for liturgical use (index New Testament, Bible)

with Burney 105, another Saibante manuscript.Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. Illuminated headpiece and initial Theodoros Hagiopetrites Theodoros Hagiopetrites Eastern Mediterranean Eastern Mediterranean, Greece (Thessalonica, monastery of Philokalos)

• Detail of decorated braided headpiece., Historiae ecclesiasticae, imperfect, preceded by a table of contents

Detail of decorated braided headpiece. f. i is a letter from Edward Burton, Regious Professor Divinity at Oxford to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society dated 1831.For Arundel's acquisition of Greek manuscripts see generally David Howarth, ~Lord Arundel

• Drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

in ~Tituli librorum de libraria ecclesiae Christi~ compiled under Henry of Estria (1284-1331), Cotton Galba E IV (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) no 321, p. 51); extensively corrected in the 11th-12th centuries

• Zoomorphic initial 'M'(agnitudo) in dark brown ink, red and green and some blue, with knot-work and foliate motifs, in the shape of a grotesque(s)., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

Christ Church, Canterbury which is recorded in the library catalogue that was compiled between 1284-1331, see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), pp. 21-22 no. 53 (Chisholm 1967): the table of contents

• Zoomorphic initial 'I' in dark brown ink, red and green and some blue, with knot-work and foliate motifs, in the shape of a bird., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

Christ Church, Canterbury which is recorded in the library catalogue that was compiled between 1284-1331, see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), pp. 21-22 no. 53 (Chisholm 1967): the table of contents

• Table, Mnemonic verses, notes, etc., on the compotus

Table Originally formed a single volume with Cotton Caligula A XV ff. 120-53. For a discussion of the original order see Willetts.f. i is a book-plate. Initials in red or blue, some with simple penwork decoration. Tables in red,

• Detail of a drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

in ~Tituli librorum de libraria ecclesiae Christi~ compiled under Henry of Estria (1284-1331), Cotton Galba E IV (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) no 321, p. 51); extensively corrected in the 11th-12th centuries

• Decorated initial 'V'(erba) containing a bird amidst foliage. The series of marks like the letter 's' in the margins are placed to the right of biblical quotations. At the extreme lower edge is a guide to the rubricator, but the rubric was never supplied, perhaps because the artist did not leave sufficient space., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.

• Diagrams of hands, with signs of pricking visible, as if for pouncing. Gaps in the text, such as in the second line of text, are probably present because of the intended alternation in the colours of initials, but no green or other colour initials were executed. For example, a guide letter 'e' is visible in the margin adjacent to the final line, for which no initial was executed., 'Quomodo inueniri possint concurrentes et data cuiuslibet anni per manum'

Diagrams of hands, with signs of pricking visible, as if for pouncing. Gaps in the text, such as in the second line of text, are probably present because of the intended alternation in the colours of initials, but no